Principal Investigator(s):
United States Department of Education. National Center for Education Statistics

Summary:

This data file contains school district-level data from the
following two sources: (1) the National Institute of Education (NIE)
Special Tabulations of 1970 Census data, retabulated to 1973-1974
school district boundaries, and (2) the 1970 Census of Population and
Housing Fifth Count data. The data in this collection were extracted
from the 1976-1977 Merged Federal File produced by AUI Policy
Research. Since some districts on the 1976-1977 Merged Federal File
had consolidated by 1978-1979, NIE Special Tabulations data for these
districts were combined. The Census data file was created
in three steps. First, a skeleton file was created, containing one
record for each school district on the 1978-1979 Merged Federal
File. Each record on the skeleton file contained those data items in
the School District Identification segment on the Merged Federal
File. Second, the NIE Special Tabulations data were merged by the
Office of Education (OE) state code and Local Education Agency (LEA)
code to the skeleton file. Finally, Census Fifth Count records were
merged by OE state code and LEA code to the skeleton file.

This data file contains school district-level data from the
following two sources: (1) the National Institute of Education (NIE)
Special Tabulations of 1970 Census data, retabulated to 1973-1974
school district boundaries, and (2) the 1970 Census of Population and
Housing Fifth Count data. The data in this collection were extracted
from the 1976-1977 Merged Federal File produced by AUI Policy
Research. Since some districts on the 1976-1977 Merged Federal File
had consolidated by 1978-1979, NIE Special Tabulations data for these
districts were combined. The Census data file was created
in three steps. First, a skeleton file was created, containing one
record for each school district on the 1978-1979 Merged Federal
File. Each record on the skeleton file contained those data items in
the School District Identification segment on the Merged Federal
File. Second, the NIE Special Tabulations data were merged by the
Office of Education (OE) state code and Local Education Agency (LEA)
code to the skeleton file. Finally, Census Fifth Count records were
merged by OE state code and LEA code to the skeleton file.

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Citation

United States Department of Education. National Center for Education Statistics. National Institute of Education (NIE) Special Tabulations and 1970 Census Fifth Count Data File. ICPSR03523-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2003. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03523.v1

Data from the following Census Fifth Count tables
were extracted for inclusion on this data file: (a) Table 1, Aggregate
Income, (b) Table 2, Aggregate Family Income by Race, Family Status
and Size, (c) Table 5, Nativity and Parentage, (d) Table 6, Mother
Tongue, (e) Table 7, Count of Persons of Foreign Stock by Country of
Origin, (f) Table 10, Count of Families by Family Type, Number of
Children under 18 and Race, (g) Table 14, Population 25 Years Old and
Over by Years of School Completed and Age, (h) Table 17, Labor Force
by Race and Sex, (i) Table 18, Employed Population 16 Years Old and
Older by Occupation, (j) Table 19, Employed Population 16 Years Old
and Older by Industry, (k) Table 20, Income by Count of Families and
Unrelated Individuals 14 Years Old and Over, (l) Table 30, Count of
Occupied and Vacant Year-Round Housing Units, (m) Table 31, Count of
Occupied Units by Race and Tenure, and (n) Table 40, Value of
Owner-Occupied units.